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Excellent! Glad the changes worked. Mesa DCs are great amps. Have fun, Erick

Did you only replace the Power Tubes with JJs? Or did you do a complete retube with JJs? If not, may be you need pre-amp tubes? For now, I think you have the bass set too high. Turn it down to 3 or 4 and set all the sliders to the middle position and set up your sound without the EQ to get...

Try the Fulltone OCD. This will serve two purposes. Works great on beefy up the clean channel when needed. And it works great for tightening up the lead channel. If you need it for a boost just turn the volume up on it to tighten and boost at the same time. Plus, what I like about it, if...

I have a DC-5 and have experimented with it in both channels. In the last few months I have been using it on the Lead Channel only. I found that I just didn't need it for the Rhythm channel with a very mild dirty clean sound. For the Lead channel it makes it so versatile, especially with the...

I use a 12AT7 in the V6 spot. You should try both you might like the 12AX7 over the AT7. The difference in tubes will change the out come. I like the 12AT7 because it smooths out the sound some. With the 12AX7 the Lead channel has a more aggressive sound, not a bad thing at all, just that I...

I haven't looked at my amp... But an End Bell is just a cover for the power transformer? Looking at the link provided by Monsta-Tone the pictures show what looks like a cover of some sort. Removing this cover "can" improve the sound? Since being educated is a good thing... Review the DC-5...

Okay, took me a little bit here to think through what MrMarkIII is saying; about the looking down and versus up on the chassis. In the schematic sticker on my amp and the DC-10 schematic the V6 slot of always closest to the reverb connectors. So, in my case I have the V1 and V6 tubes in the...

Here is a pic of the schematic sticker inside the cabinet. Mine looks similar to bissoboa's, but mine is filled out. I changed a few tubes based on this schematic. If it's true that V1 is always closest to the input jack them for me I have V1 and V6 backwards and need to change them with each...

After reading this post had me puzzled... On my DC-5A there is a Schematic sticker, very similar to the one that is in the DC-10 manual, showing the tube layout. On this sticker it shows V1 being on the opposite side with V6 being closest to the input jack. After reading this post is there a...

Forgot to mention too that mic placement is important too along with the type and quality of the mic. Play with the placement to see what you like. Edge versus the center of the cone versus the mid point between the two. This will produce different results and how close the mic is to the...

Are you being sarcastic there Dude?!?! :? The first 10 to 15 seconds sounds the best to my ears. Catchy rhythm too, by the way. What did you have the bass level set to? I don't run mine over 3 for the lead channel. Then I run the mids at about 5.5 with the treble at 6.5 to 7. Then the...

Yes, I understand what you are saying and it does make sense. Cool! 8) Switch will be closed continuing the circuit through the red wire as you mentioned. I didn't think of this earlier. Thanks again for your help and I will let you know how it turns out. Best regards, Erick

Thanks, I will take another look at it this weekend. I really appreciate the help. From what I understand about the switch jacks it should have 3 terminal points on it instead of 2 for a normal mono non-switch jack. I would think that this is the "indicator" of such a jack. Would you agree...

Thanks, I understand your explanation. The red wire goes to the Return Jack which is on the bottom. I do have DC-5A as you have noticed. And from your's and Monsta-Tone's description of the wiring, I am beginning to think that Mesa wired the send jack differently on the DC-5A than the DC-5B...

Here is another angle to view the bare wire from the return jack. espexp, are you saying that its likely that the send jacks switch function is worn out or just non-functional after all these years? I just did some research view Google for new mono 1/4" switched jacks. There are a lot of...

Thank you for your help and putting up with my dumb questions. Just thinking there are others out there thinking the same thing and this information will help them as well. The red wire is from the return jack. I have some photos that I took earlier from another angle and I don't see a brown...

Just did this change a few hours ago and have been enjoying it by experimenting with it. Really does help the delay repeats to come out more clearly. And the my Chorus pedal, Boss Ch-1, sounds much better too. I did notice that I have to use the effects loop or nothing comes through...

Thanks espexp! I really appreciate the help. This is what I thought, but like I indicated in my post, I wanted to make sure. Plus, learn more about what was being done within the effects loop from a technical perspective. Now hopefully this will make it easy for others to see how to do this...

Hi, This is my first post here. I have been reading up on the DC-5 here since I got mine about a month and a half ago. I really like the DC-5 a lot, as I have been Line 6 Flextone II user for years, the Flextone has served me well, but nothing like having a "real" tube amp, if you know what...